Painting
['peɪntɪŋ] or ['pentɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the occupation of a house painter; 'house painting was the only craft he knew'.
(noun.) the act of applying paint to a surface; 'you can finish the job of painting faster with a roller than with a brush'.
(noun.) creating a picture with paints; 'he studied painting and sculpture for many years'.
(noun.) graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface; 'a small painting by Picasso'; 'he bought the painting as an investment'; 'his pictures hang in the Louvre'.
校對:索尼亚--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paint
(n.) The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.
(n.) The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.
(n.) Color laid on; paint.
(n.) A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.
整理:昆廷
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Picture (in colors).
校對:米里亚姆
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Painting, chopping wood, hammering, plowing, washing, scrubbing, sewing, are all forms of work. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Let us assume that we have a painting or a drawing in colors from which it is desired to produce a set of printing plates to produce that drawing in facsimile. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In this room, too, there was a cabinet piano, quite new and of superior tone; also an easel for painting and a pair of globes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He deliberately scrutinised each sketch and painting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But who would have imagined, said he, that Franklin was capable of such a performance; such painting, such force, such fire! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Would it comfort, or would it wound you to have a similar painting? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But if you have a genius for painting, would it not be right to take that as a guide? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I promised Traddles that he should hear Dora sing, and see some of her flower-painting. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- And you want to express too much with your painting. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Here's what may leave all painting and all music behind, and what poetry only can attempt to describe! 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Miss Mills was copying music (I recollect, it was a new song, called 'Affection's Dirge'), and Dora was painting flowers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Exact copies of an original, whether of a painting or a photograph, are now produced on paper with all the original shades and colours. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- There is a smear on the painting of your door, here. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Your painting and Plastik are poor stuff after all. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- In due time, his course brought him to the door, and put him face to face with the decorative painting that you know of. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It makes me dizzy, to think of the Vatican--of its wilderness of statues, paintings, and curiosities of every description and every age. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- China continued to produce beautiful paintings long after the fall of the Han rule. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Before its introduction it was not possible to reproduce cheaply in printers’ ink shaded pictures like photographs, brush drawings, paintings, etc. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Its grandeur-- its treasure of paintings, its magnificent halls were objects soothing and even exhilarating. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- From Egyptian tomb-paintings. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And then she shewed him how, by executing various designs and paintings, she earned a pittance for her support. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- There are comparatively few paintings that I can really enjoy. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- We wandered through the endless collections of paintings and statues of the Pitti and Ufizzi galleries, of course. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- That is one of my paintings over the chimney-piece. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Early Egyptian paintings show this going on. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is one of the largest paintings in Europe. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Genoa and her rival, Venice, were the great trading seaports of this time; their noble palaces, their lordly paintings, still win our admiration. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- During a two years' sojourn in Italy he had collected many good paintings and tasteful rarities, with which his residence was now adorned. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Two or three exquisite paintings of children, in various attitudes, embellished the wall. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- For copying paintings on glass, the solution should be applied on leather, and in this case it is more readily acted on than when paper is used. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
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